This document outlines the steps for counseling patients to change behaviors: 1) Prepare by delivering a clear message and determining the patient's stage of change. 2) Help move the patient from contemplation to determination and action by building self-efficacy and creating an action plan. 3) Maintain the change through social support, addressing relapse as a learning experience, and ongoing follow up counseling matched to the patient's stage of change. The goal is to use brief counseling methods to help patients progress through the stages of change and overcome relapse in order to achieve long-term behavior modification.
5. Implications of Change Cycle
Majority are NOT ready for action
Each cycle improves the chance of
maintenance of long-term change
Counseling that is matched to
stage enhances outcome
Relapse is common and is a
learning stage
6. Brief Intervention Features
F Personalized Feedback to patient
R Patient has Responsibility for change
A Clear Advice on behavior to change
M Menu of options for choice
E Express Empathy to mobilize change
S Evoke Self-efficacy to enhance confidence
10. The Message Counseling
Give Personalized Feedback
– Clear message, advice to change
– Shutdown
– Doctor babble
Determine Readiness to Change
(Stage)
– Ask - “What do you KNOW about this?”
– Ask - “How do you FEEL about this?”
– Ask - “What are you willing to DO about
this?”
14. Contemplation - Counseling
Express Empathy
Develop Discrepancy
Avoid Argument
Roll with Resistance
Support Self-efficacy
Use Decision Balance
15. Decision Balance Exercise
No Change Change
Old Behavior Like about? Worried about?
New Behavior Worried about? Like about?
16.
17. Counseling
Step #2 : Determination to Action
Determination Stage
Self-Efficacy - Play
Hard To Get
Action Plan
Action Plan Interview
Action Stage
18. Determination
Ephemeral stage
Must do something
about the problem
Build Self-efficacy
– Skills
– Confidence of success
– Conviction to act
Develop plan for action
19. Determination Clues
“This is a serious
problem”
“I must do something!”
“I can make the change”
NOT “What do you
recommend I do?”
NOT “Whatever you say
I’ll do!”
20. Determination Counseling
Play “hard to get” in telling
what to do
– “Only you know what is best
for you. This is what
others have used”
– “I’m not sure you’re ready to
act yet;
convince me”
– “How convinced are you
change will help?”
– “How confident are you
you’re change will be
successful?”
21. Plan for Action
Realistic goal
Small steps
Short trial period (7
days)
Self-monitoring
Role-models
Go public
Plan for problems and
lapses
22. Building an Action Plan
Here is a MENU of options…
What are you willing to
DO?
What or who might
HELP?
What PROBLEMS might
arise?
What will you DO until
we next meet?
23.
24. Action
Patient makes changes
alone
Withdrawal symptoms
– physical withdrawal
– psychological
withdrawal
New coping behaviors
Clues to act and avoid
old habit
Clues and rewards for
new behavior
25. Action Counseling
Moral support
Log or journal
Role-model
Frequent contact
Treat withdrawal
symptoms
Devise diversions
28. Maintenance Counseling
Self-monitoring
Attend to cues and
consequences of new and old
behavior - act to form new
habit
Address maladaptive
thoughts
New coping strategies
Use and become a role-model
29. Relapse
Common, may be necessary
Reframe as a learning
experience
Experience loss of control
Learn pre-relapse clues
Experience “relapse”
thinking
Cope with guilt and shame
Cope with guilt and shame,
“I blew it!”
30. Relapse Counseling
Express empathy for guilt,
shame, distress
Confront “stinking thinking”
Explore triggers to relapse
Plan for different coping
strategies
Negotiate a new action plan
Consider referral or increasing
intensity of support
Role-models
Close follow-up
31.
32. Summary
Deliver a clear message about
change
Counsel by asking not telling
Determine patient’s stage or
change
Use stage-specific counseling
Use brief intervention methods
Change involves more than
knowledge
Relapse is a usual stage of
change
33. Source :
• 2000, F. Duffy, D., MD, MACP and Goldstein,
M.G.,MD, Counseling for Behavior Change,
ACP